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\n The Fisher House Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to providing housing for military and veteran families, runs the Heroes\u2019 Legacy Scholarships program, which honors not just who have fallen in battle, but those who have died or have become disabled through their active military service since September 11, 2001. To qualify, applicants must be the dependent unmarried children under age 23 of active-duty personnel, Reserve\/Guard and retired military members, or survivors of service members who died while on active duty and meet one of the these criteria: one of the parents died, became disabled, or received a permanent and total compensation rating of 100% from the DOD or Department of Veteran Affairs, while serving on active duty on or after September 11, 2001 in any branch or component of the US Armed Forces; they must be enrolled or planning to enroll full-time in an undergraduate degree program leading to a bachelor’s degree, or a community college program designed for direct transfer into a four-year program; they satisfy the minimum cumulative GPA requirement (3.0 on a 4.0 for high school seniors, 2.5 for college students). Applications open in December each year.<\/p>\n

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Eligible Grade Levels:<\/strong> High School Senior, College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior
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Eligible Majors:<\/strong> All majors
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Residency Requirement:<\/strong> No residency requirement
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Minimum GPA:<\/strong> 3.0 (high school applicant), 2.5 (college applicant)
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Deadline:<\/strong> Application is currently closed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Please note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor’s website for up-to-date deadlines.
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Amount: Varies. About: The Fisher House Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to providing housing for military and veteran families, runs the Heroes\u2019 Legacy Scholarships program, which honors not just who have fallen in battle, but those who have died or have become disabled through their active military service since September 11, 2001. To qualify, applicants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-no-separators","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4968,4967,2356,3712,3714,3715,3713,3730,4092,4776],"tags":[5032],"class_list":["post-81161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-5-college-applicant","category-3-0-high-school-applicant","category-major","category-college-freshman","category-college-junior","category-college-senior","category-college-sophomore","category-february","category-high-school-senior","category-no-residency-requirement","tag-varies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Scholarship Spotlight","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/author\/scholarship-guru\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Amount: Varies. About: The Fisher House Foundation, a charitable foundation dedicated to providing housing for military and veteran families, runs the Heroes\u2019 Legacy Scholarships program, which honors not just who have fallen in battle, but those who have died or have become disabled through their active military service since September 11, 2001. To qualify, applicants…","featured_media_src_url":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81161"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140281,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81161\/revisions\/140281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}